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Washington Square, Ch. 4, by Henry James

Washington Square, Ch. 4, by Henry James An MPDMedia Audiobook Tried to make this into a slideshow video for YouTube but my soft wasn't cooperating. Including are images of all the pages from that chapter, via Project Gutenberg. Washington Square, first published in 1881, is a classic early YA novel, aimed at girls 12-17. Catherine Sloper, the plain and innocent daughter of a successful New York City doctor in the 1840's, is romanced by a handsome fortune-hunter named Morris Townsend, a man her father prudently forbids her to see. Townsend is introduced in this pivotal chapter, where we already see him invading the family circle at the engagement party of a younger cousin, Marian, set to marry his distant cousin. Washington Square is in a class with Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, Mary Wilkins-Freeman's The Portion of Labor, and Edith Wharton's House of Mirth as a cautionary tale for young adults, specifically girls, with enough witty dialogue and compelling narrative to keep them interested. The story was adapted perfectly as The Heiress in 1949, and won Olivia De Havilland an Oscar as Catherine. The Lux Radio Theater version is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1yNJjX_s

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